Practical Solution for Broadcasting in VANETs Using Neighbor Information

Celimuge WU  Satoshi OHZAHATA  Toshihiko KATO  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E96-B   No.11   pp.2856-2864
Publication Date: 2013/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E96.B.2856
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
vehicular ad hoc networks,  broadcast protocol,  fuzzy logic,  neighbor information,  practical solution,  

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Summary: 
Due to vehicle movement and lossy wireless channels, providing a reliable and efficient multi-hop broadcast service in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is a well-known challenging problem. In this paper, we propose BR-NB (broadcast with neighbor information), a fuzzy logic based multi-hop broadcast protocol for VANETs. BR-NB achieves a low overhead by using only a subset of neighbor nodes to relay data packets. For the relay node selection, BR-NB jointly considers multiple metrics of the inter-vehicle distance, vehicle mobility and link quality by employing fuzzy logic. Since the expected coverage and vehicle mobility are inferred from the two-hop neighbor information which can be acquired from the hello message exchange, BR-NB is independent of position information. BR-NB provides a practical and portable solution for broadcast services in VANETs. We use computer simulations and real-world experiments to evaluate the performance of BR-NB.